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Fatih Akin (Turkish: Fatih Akın, born 25 August 1973) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.[1][2] He has won numerous awards for his films, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his film Head-On (2004), Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival for his film The Edge of Heaven (2007), and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for his film In the Fade (2017).

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Fatih Akin
Akin in 2009
Born	(1973-08-25) 25 August 1973 (age 49) Hamburg, West Germany
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Monique Obermüller ​ (m. 2004)​
Children	2

Early life

Akin was born in Hamburg to Turkish parents.[3] He has one brother, Cem Akin, who works as an actor. He attended the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg to study visual communications and graduated in 2000.[4]

Akin has been married to German-Mexican actress Monique Obermüller since 2004. The couple live in Hamburg-Altona, close to where he was raised.[2] They have two children.[5]

Career

Akin made his debut as director of a full-length film as early as 1998 with Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos), which brought him the "Bronze Leopard" award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director in Munich the same year. Since then he has directed feature films such as In July (Im Juli) in 2000, We forgot to go back (Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren) in 2001 and Solino' in 2002.

His fourth film, Head-On (Gegen die Wand), starring Sibel Kekilli, was a major success in 2004 and received several prizes, among them the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival and the "Best Film" and the "Audience Award" at the 2004 European Film Awards.

In 2005, he directed a documentary about the Istanbul music scene, Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, which includes musicians such as Ceza, Sezen Aksu, Aynur Doğan and Brenna MacCrimmon. It is narrated by a member of a German experimental band Einstürzende Neubauten, Alexander Hacke, who also produced music for Head-On.

In 2007, Akin's The Edge of Heaven, a German-Turkish cross-cultural tale of loss, mourning and forgiveness, won the prize for Best Screenplay at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007.[6][7] On 24 October 2007 the same film was awarded the first edition of the LUX prize for European cinema by the European Parliament.[8]

About the comedy Soul Kitchen (2009) he has said he chose this more light-hearted film because he needed a break after making the "tough" films Head-On and The Edge of Heaven before making his next planned film The Devil. "But", he says, "now I feel ready to finish the trilogy".[9]

In 2012, his documentary film Polluting Paradise was screened in the Special Screenings section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[10][11]

His 2014 film The Cut has been selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.[12][13]

In 2017, Akin's film In the Fade was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[14][15] At Cannes that year, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award.[16] The film was subsequently selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards,[17] making the December shortlist.[18] In the Fade won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.[19]

Political stance

In 2006, Akin expressed protest towards the George W. Bush administration when he wore a shirt on set with the letters "BUSH", with a swastika in place of the letter "S". Subsequently, someone filed a complaint and Akin was investigated by German police because displaying a swastika or any other Nazi symbol is illegal in Germany.[20][21] Akin defended the shirt as "more than mere provocation" and emphasized:[22]

Bush's policy is comparable with that of the Third Reich. I think that under Bush, Hollywood has been making certain films at the request of The Pentagon to normalise things like torture and Guantanamo. I'm convinced the Bush administration wants a third world war. I think they're fascists.

— Fatih Akin

Awards

• 1998 Bavarian Film Awards, Best New Director
• 2004 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival
• 2004 European Film Awards, Best Film, Audience Award
• 2007 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Golden Orange Award, Best Director
• 2007 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Director[23]
• 2007 LUX Prize for European Cinema awarded by European Parliament
• 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Best Screenplay
• 2010 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution in depicting the problems of Turkish-Germans.[24]
• 2018 Golden Globe Award, Best Foreign Language Film

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes	Awards
1995	Sensin... You're the One!	Short film (German title: Sensin - Du bist es!)
1996	Weed	Short film (German title: Getürkt)
1997	Back in Trouble	Actor
1998	Short Sharp Shock	(German title: Kurz und schmerzlos)	Bronze Leopard at Locarno, Switzerland Pierrot at Bavarian Film Award for the best young director
2000	In July	Original script
2001	Denk ich an Deutschland … [de] – Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren	TV documentary series episode
2002	Solino
2004	Head-On	(German title: Gegen die Wand, Turkish title: Duvara karşı)	Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival "Best Film" and "Audience Award" at European Film Awards
2004	Visions of Europe	(segment Die bösen alten Lieder, German title: Europäische Visionen)
2004	Kebab Connection	Co-writer
2004	Hırsız Var	Actor (Lokman)
2005	Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul	Documentary
2007	The Edge of Heaven	(German title: Auf der anderen Seite, Turkish title: Yaşamın Kıyısında)	Best Director at Golden Orange Film Festival Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival LUX prize for European cinema by European Parliament
2008	New York, I Love You	A segment
2009	Soul Kitchen	Original script	Special Award of the Jury at Venice International Film Festival
2012	Polluting Paradise	Documentary (German title: Der Müll im Garten Eden)
2014	The Cut
2016	Goodbye Berlin	based on the novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf (German title: Tschick)
2017	In the Fade	(German title: Aus dem Nichts)	Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Golden Globe Awards
2019	The Golden Glove	(German title: Der goldene Handschuh) based on the novel by Heinz Strunk

Collaborations

Actors	Short Sharp Shock	In July	Solino	Head-On	The Edge of Heaven	Soul Kitchen	The Cut
Cem Akin	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Moritz Bleibtreu		Y	Y			Y	Y
Adam Bousdoukos	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	Y
Stefan Gebelhoff			Y	Y
Demir Gökgöl			Y			Y
Marc Hosemann	Y					Y
Mehmet Kurtuluş	Y	Y		Y
Hermann Lause			Y	Y
Catrin Striebeck				Y		Y
Birol Ünel		Y		Y		Y
İdil Üner	Y	Y		Y	Y
Patrycia Ziółkowska			Y		Y	Y	Y

References

Bibliography

• Barbara Kosta, "Transcultural Exchanges: Fatih Akin's Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)," in Martinson, Steven D. / Schulz, Renate A. (Eds./hg.), Transcultural German Studies / Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Building Bridges / Brücken bauen (Bern etc., Peter Lang, 2008) (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A: Kongressberichte, 94),

External links

• Fatih Akin at IMDb
• Fatih Akin Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
• Rocking Istanbul A talk with Daniel Bax on the film "Crossing the Bridge", tour guides and Vikings, music divas and the responsibilities of critical acclaim at signandsight.com

На других языках

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- [en] Fatih Akin

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[es] Fatih Akın

Fatih Akın es un cineasta alemán de ascendencia turca nacido en Hamburgo el 25 de agosto de 1973. Recibió el Oso de oro como mejor director y mejor film por su película Contra la pared en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Berlín en el año 2004, así como el premio de mejor película en la 17 edición de los Premios Europeos de Cine del mismo año. Contra la pared es la historia de una joven ávida de vida que se emancipa de su conservadora familia turca, contrayendo un matrimonio de conveniencia. Está influida por el origen turco de Akın.

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[ru] Акин, Фатих

Фати́х Аки́н (нем. Fatih Akin, тур. Fatih Akın, правильная транскрипция: Фа́ти Акы́н, род. 25 августа 1973 года, Гамбург) — немецкий кинорежиссёр турецкого происхождения, сценарист, продюсер и актёр.

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